I was going to wrap a gift last night and didn't feel like it, so I buried the ribbon under everything else - instead of putting it in a drawer - and went to bed. I should have known better because I came downstairs this morning to Bear puking blood-tinged foam. I got her to the vet and they had to cut her open. They pulled out 24 inches of ribbon at the top of her stomach and they don't think any of it got to her intestines.

So please make sure to put ribbon away and think good thoughts for Bear. She's going to have to wear a cone and that didn't go over well last time. I'm so grateful I caught it in time.

I'm sorry! That's awful. It doesn't make you a bad cat mom, though. Accidents happen. Just glad that she is okay.

_________________Did you notice the slight feeling of panic at the words "Chicken Basin Street"? Like someone was walking over your grave? Try not to remember. We must never remember. - mumblesIs this about devilberries and nazifruit again? - footface

We work hard to keep our house bird safe, but our poor tiel still had a horrible foot injury because she got closed in a pantry. Now we have bells on doors.

It's really hard to anticipate every possible bad thing that could happen. Molly tried to drink laundry detergent the other day! I'm not sure what about smelly bright blue thick liquid in the washing machine tray said "drink me," but I had to grab her by the tail.

By taking her for emergency care, you did the best you can for her! Good cat mom!

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We're home. She looks so unhappy. The vet gave me the ribbon and it scares me to think what would have happened if it got to her intestines. It was also $1600. I'm thankful I get three paychecks this month. I blew up the air mattress so I can sleep with her in the extra room tonight.

I posted about this on the PPK ages ago, but one of my cats ate lily pollen once, because I had lilies in my apartment and was not aware that they were horribly toxic to cats. It was a horrible ordeal and I felt so guilty for putting Agnes through it. You're not a horrible cat mom at all, we all make mistakes! The important thing is that she is ok.

_________________"No one with hair so soft and glossy could ever be bad at anything." - Tofulish

You're not a bad mom...there is just no way to tell what our pets will get into. One of my cats was freaking out once and I discovered that it was because he had dental floss and poop hanging out of his butt. He had fished it out of the bathroom trash and eaten it. Everything ended up okay, but not before I had to chase him all over the house while poop got on everything. Fun times. My other cat could care less about floss!

Sending Bear tons of love. You are not a bad cat mom at all. It's hard to predict what our furry little monsters will get into. When I was first learning how to crochet, I proudly crocheted a long chain of yarn, then got up to use the restroom. When I came back, I saw Luna was gagging, and I reached into her mouth and pulled out the long, soggy chain. Oh, and the other day one of my cats got into my sewing bag, and somehow made this giant spiderweb of yarn spanning through every room of my apartment. That was fun too. Kitties are crazy. When we got Dexter fixed, they gave him a fabric cone instead of a plastic cone. Is that a possibility or do your doctors think it should be plastic?

Oh man. I had a cat that ate ribbon one time and we did not even KNOW he had eaten it until he was having trouble going to the bathroom and my mom wiped his behind and out came this really, really long piece of ribbon. :-X It really freaked us out. He'd been acting kind of off, but not enough so that we thought he had a serious problem, and we felt so lucky that it came out the other end like that.